Main Door Vastu: 32 Door Padas, Dehleez, Torans and Window Rules

The main door works like the two nostrils of the body: close both and life ends, and breathing through the mouth alone never feels right. In the same way the main door takes in the energy given by nature, which arrives as rays of different composition at each angle, and distributes it through the whole house, much as breath reaches the 72,000 nadis; it also lets out the negative energy created inside. That is why it is called the door of fortune and carries the most marks of any part of the house. If the main door is wrong, even a well-placed bedroom and kitchen will not give their results, because the right energy never comes in.

The two shutters correspond to the Ida and Pingala nadis: we breathe through one nostril and then the other, each flowing for about an hour, so a door with two shutters brings energy in and lets it out easily, while a single shutter struggles to do both. Doors thousands of years old, and even the small room doors of old palaces, were always made with two shutters. The main door must have two shutters; inner doors should preferably have two as well, though one shutter is acceptable there.

Because it is the most sacred and pure place, entering there with shoes and slippers is a serious problem. Shikhi devta, who sits at E1, then produces his fire, and his anger brings agni bhay (fear of fire), a greater chance of fire breaking out in the house. So E1 should not be used for the main door, even though people commonly praise it.

Before sunrise the Sun produces rays at E3 that carry minerals, vitamins and a gold composition. A well-decorated two-shutter door open at E3 therefore brings abundant wealth, and there is no shortage of money. E3 is one of the three vipul sampada dwar (abundant-wealth doors), along with N4 and W4.

Vedic vastu says the defects of a wrongly placed door can be removed through the decoration of the door itself: auspicious symbols, yantras, paintings and artworks made on the door, door power at the threshold, and a bandhanwar (toran) hung on it. This class therefore treats wrong doors with symbols, torans, bandhanwars and colours rather than structural changes.

Do not worry that S3 and S6 are also open: if the good pada, S4, is open within the shutter, the shop gives the results of S4, because when energy enters from every part, positive and negative, the result follows the positive. Trouble comes only when the good part is closed and the bad parts are open; then keep the shutter closed and open a small door on the good pada instead. In combination doors for business, always keep the favourable pada fully open.

Chhappar phaad ke means wealth that arrives while you sit quietly, for example someone leaving you a fortune worth thousands of crores in a will. The N4 door of Bhallat devta, the best of all 32 door padas, is called the vipul sampada dwar and brings money in overflowing measure. In one well-known case a childless industrialist family left its entire estate by will to the chartered accountant who had served them, and the beneficiary's house had a complete N4 door decorated exactly as an N4 door should be; former employees became the owners of a huge group.

In interior vastu a wrong door is treated only with symbols and similar items, since the full door treatment alone would take about five classes. For South door defects the class gives bandhanwars of stone or gems, a toran of copper and wood, and a red triangular swastik bandhanwar hung on a Saturday or Tuesday. In the South only S4 is a good pada, and it suits those with Kark, Makar or Kanya rashi, mulank 9, or an exalted or own-sign Mars.

Yes. N8 is the door of poverty (nirdhanta): a shortage of money persists and one keeps borrowing from others and from banks. The North-East corner padas around N8 and E1 are the doors that make a person poor, which is why the main door should not be in the Ishaan corner. Close it if that is at all possible.

A dosh does not act all the time. Any defect gives its bad effect only when the related planetary dasha, mahadasha, antardasha or pratyantar dasha runs; fear of fire comes when a Mars period such as Angarak yoga is active. Fear can also take other forms, such as constant insecurity about the future.

N8 is the location of Jupiter (Guru), so it relates to the Guru mahadasha. The fear connected with it appears when combinations such as Jwalamukhi yoga or Angarak yoga form. Otherwise some fear, such as insecurity about the future, tends to remain anyway.

Yes, this is chhappar phaad wealth, which comes as soon as N4 opens. E3, N4 and W4 are the three vipul sampada dwar (abundant-wealth doors). Opening them virtually gives perhaps 1 percent of the actual result, so do not believe the heavy promotion of virtual doors; it is the actual opening that brings the result.

There are three types of doors: the boundary wall door (for example the entrance of a multi-storey building or the gate of a bungalow), the main door through which you enter your own home, and room doors such as the kitchen or bedroom door. The interpretation applies mainly to the main door. The boundary wall door also plays a role, but much less, because even after entering the gate you cannot get into the house if the main door is locked.

No. The North is large, running from N1 to N8, so first locate the pada of your door, whether N6, N7, N1 or another. Mostly it is N1 that is bad: it brings death-like suffering and should never be used for a door.

When the main door is installed in a muhurta, its four-piece frame (chaukhat) is set up and the base piece of wood is the dehleez (threshold). Door power means installing that dehleez in a muhurta combined with the right swar, with the prescribed samagri, such as silver and pancha ratna, placed in the ground beneath it. Done this way, even a door in a wrong place has about 50 percent of its defect removed. The full door treatment is part of the complete course.

Use the zoning chakra shown on the first day, or draw it: from the centre of the map draw the four directions 90 degrees apart and the corner directions at 45 degrees, then halve again to 22.5 degrees and once more to 11.25 degrees, which gives 32 padas (360 degrees shared by the 32 guardian devtas). Starting from E1 next to the North-East line, go round clockwise from E1 to E8, then S1 to S8, W1 to W8 and N1 to N8, on the 81-pada grid. Practise this as homework.

A balcony door is counted in the category of room doors, not as a main door. Asked whether a balcony door in the South-West also has to be blocked, the answer was yes.

Yes. With the person's astrology as the base, the door is chosen according to whom it will suit. The class covers three ways, by rashi, by exalted and debilitated planets in the birth chart, and by mulank, and the birth chart carries the most weight.

Mulank is the digit sum of the birth date: born on the 1st it is 1, on the 11th 1 + 1 = 2, on the 13th 1 + 3 = 4, on the 18th 1 + 8 = 9. Indian astrology gives it little weight because India runs by tithi, not by date; if dates mattered, tides, amavasya, purnima and eclipses would fall on fixed dates. Doors by mulank follow the planet of each number (1 Sun East, 2 Moon North-West, 3 Jupiter North-East, 4 Rahu and 7 Ketu South-West, 5 Mercury North, 6 Venus South-East, 8 Saturn West, 9 Mars South), but the rashi and the birth chart should decide.

It should always be rectangular, with a full chaukhat of four pieces of wood; a three-piece frame does not give the same results even on N4. Its height should be twice its width, for example 7 feet high for a 3.5-foot width, so do not run doors up to the full height of the room as some new buildings do. Where the 1:2 ratio cannot be kept, calculate the aay (length x width divided by 8; the remainder is the aay) and make a door of 1 or 3 aay. Avoid triangular doors (trouble for women), shakat doors (trouble for the family head), supa and sun-shaped doors (loss of money), bow-shaped doors (family disputes) and round doors (trouble for children, more girls born).

When the thresholds of thousand-year-old temples, forts and palaces were lifted, silver coins and pancha ratna were found beneath them. The dehleez itself stops negative surface currents and tantric attacks from crossing into the house; silver stops negative energy from entering and cancels the ill-effects of the door, and the pancha ratna make positive energy flow through the dehleez and multiply on every festival as it enters the house. Roots of certain plants, such as black dhatura, were also placed in the dehleez so that no ghost or evil obstruction could enter.

No. Direction rules for metals apply above the ground, where the cosmic energy of the planet's location acts, not underground. If they applied underground, silver would be found only in the North-West, gold only in the East and iron only in the West. Iron rods are laid through the whole slab anyway, so cutting a zone with an iron strip means nothing; learn vastu with logic and science.

The dehleez should be 3 inches thick and made of high-grade, artistic wood. The door too should be artistic: old doors carried symbols such as Om and Swastik, mantras and creeper motifs, which increase the door's power.

The main door should be only of wood, best of teak, and royal doors were of sandalwood or had a little sandalwood mixed in. Flush doors are made from plywood of thorny shrubs, so even a house costing crores with a cheap flush main door does not get good results, because energy takes on the chemistry of the material it passes through. A sandalwood Om or Swastik pasted on the door also gives very good results.

If an open-to-sky space appears right at the entrance, the energy coming in through the main door escapes straight out through it. So the entrance should be a little enclosed.

The teacher left it to the students; their suggestions, a mango leaf swastik toran and a toran of cow-dung cakes, were both called correct. He then gave his best (Kohinoor) bandhanwar for any wrongly placed door: make round discs of desi cow dung, draw a swastik on each, fix them on a bandhanwar strip and hang it on the main door, and the defects end. The alternative, a daily desi cow-dung lepan in front of the main door with a rangoli in the colour of its zone, is hard to keep up every day, so the permanent bandhanwar is better.

They can be either. In the South and West, from where negative energy comes, three doors in a row on padas where doors should not be are inauspicious. In the North and East they are auspicious: temples, all built facing North or East, have three or five doors in a row, as do royal palaces, so the blanket belief that they are bad is a myth.

A door is placed by pada, but a window does not work on the surface current: currents are dense near the ground and lighter higher up, so positive energy stays higher, which makes ventilation a must. Windows and ventilators bring in clean air and push the negativity of the house out, so they should open outward, while the main door opens inward; sliding windows are acceptable. Keep windows in even numbers, two-shuttered if possible, in one row at one level, with a window beside the main door; open all windows in the morning and keep the left (Chandra swar) window open during the day.

In the North anywhere from N1 to N5; from N8 across the East up to E7, but not at E8; in the South on S3, S4 and S5; and in the West on W3, W4 and W5. These are the green-marked padas of the window chart.

Energy behaves like materials of different specific gravity: the densest settles at the bottom, as dirt does, and the lighter the energy, the better it is. That is why ground-floor flats sell cheapest and higher flats cost more. People living on the topmost floors face the fewest vastu doshas, because the winds ventilate the space and keep the energy flowing.

With UPVC systems whole sections can open, so at least open the part that has an opening system, wherever possible. Following the allowed span, the East from E1 to E7 can be opened fully, at least five padas of the North, three padas of the South and three or four padas of the West.

Yes, every entrance has its related profession and the type of disease it can bring, and some padas are rog dwar (doors of disease). The teacher promised two charts, one for diseases and one for professions, since a complete door study takes seven to eight hours; residential and industrial doors are studied in detail in the industrial vastu module.

The Ishaan (North-East) corner belongs to Jupiter, so people whose Jupiter is exalted can keep their door there. This shows how the birth chart decides which door suits a person.

Yes. Both follow the same allowed padas: N1 to N5, from N8 across the East up to E7, S3 to S5 and W3 to W5.

It has been seen that people whose Rahu is exalted, at a good degree and giving good results, had South-West doors without much trouble. Even so, a South-West door should be avoided. Where one exists, do the main door usara with seven sea-salt lumps given in this class, which gives very good results.

No door gives results, however good its pada, if it suffers a vedh such as a pit, tree, T-junction, pillar or column at the door. Here the energy entering through the door falls into the pit of the tank, so close that tank. When the whole plot is built and you enter through one door, that is the main door; generally the main door is the one through which you reach inside the house after the gate. A door made at the back after circling the house (prishtha bhang dwar), or one you leave anti-clockwise, also fails to give full results, even on N4.

Although it is not this class's topic, the chabutra is always built at the corner: in WSW, SW or SSW. All three belong to Nairutya: the southern Nairutya, Nairutya itself and the western Nairutya.

They still have a small effect, about 10 to 20 percent, while the main door used for coming and going counts much more. Some houses have three main doors: if they are on correct padas they are not inauspicious even when they stay shut, so leave them. Doors on wrong padas that have been given the form of a door act as virtual doors.

It depends on the map. If the office has its own separate door, grid it separately, since its work and its door are separate, and grid the home separately too.

Fix it outside the door. Hang it in a U shape, exactly the way the English letter U is written, with the open end upward.

The small niches were made for lamps; they are the eyes of the door, and lamps placed in them open its eyes. The jharokhas beside them are the ears. Lamps must be lit in the niches on festivals such as Diwali, Dussehra, Holi and Raksha Bandhan, and in royal houses they were lit daily; a house whose eyes stay open keeps a right watch over everyone. If a door, even one in a wrong place, is decorated like this with small desi cow ghee lamps in the niches, its defects do not apply.

A frame cannot exist without its upper wood, since it would not stand. The top wood of the frame is the upper lip and the dehleez is the lower lip.

On top of it: the door is fitted above the dehleez, the lower wood of the frame.

One level means that all the doors stand on the same floor level. The chaukhat and dehleez are always set above the floor, so every door is reckoned from that same floor level.

Yes, it must be higher than the floor; only then can it stop the energy. It should be made of wood in particular.

Clockwise only. Standing outside the main door, circle the hand holding the seven lumps clockwise in front of the door for the rounds, then sweep once or twice from the front as if pouring the energy out and throwing it away outside. Do it only while the right nostril (Surya swar) is active; done in the left swar it gives no result and instead invites negativity. Swar vigyan is the base of everything, and without swar, vastu is handicapped.

Yes. 1 + 9 = 10 and 1 + 0 = 1, so the mulank is 1.

It depends on the nature the occupants need. Those who must keep firmness, such as kings and military people, use stone, while wood always represents softness, so those who want a gentle nature use wood. The door and its frame shape the nature of the people: if you need to become tough, make the dehleez of hard stone.

It is essential in the main door, and very good if every door has one. In a house the teacher built in Surat, every door was given a dehleez with silver placed under it.

No. What counts is composition and quality, not appearance; ashopalav leaves have a different composition, so they do not carry the properties of mango leaves. Mango leaves have many special qualities: their juice is used for purifying land, and where marriage is not happening or auspicious functions keep failing, mango leaf juice is applied as a lepan beneath the place where the girl or boy sleeps, after which the auspicious events take place.

There is nothing to read into it; not everyone has exalted or debilitated planets, and it is neither good nor bad. In such cases the door is chosen towards the direction in which the benefic planets sit, which was taken up in the evening astro-vastu class.

Yes, a jali door can be made; it is called the supporting door of the main door and is an old tradition, since double paata frames were made earlier, with a jali door on one side and a two-shutter door. It needs a double paata chaukhat with a suitable dehleez, which builders generally do not provide in flats, so ask the builder; without that dehleez and frame the second door cannot be fitted.

Such a case has to be judged from the birth chart, so it was taken up as a special case study in the evening astro-vastu class. For this analysis only the lagna chart is used, not the navamsha, so only the lagna chart needs to be sent.

Take a shubh muhurta for dehleez installation (the teacher posts dehleez muhurtas every month) and have a dehleez made. It should still be of wood; make it of stone if you want to become firm and of wood for a softer nature, choosing the type of wood by the qualities you want.

When you step out of the main door, first go to the right, even a step or two, and then turn left; then there is no dosh. People do the same with cars, moving them a little in the clockwise direction first. Leaving the house anti-clockwise is called heen bahu dwar.

The wooden door is the main door. Iron is acceptable in the West, and an iron door in the boundary wall is acceptable. If the inner main door is on an unfavourable pada, correct it with the direction-wise bandhanwars and symbols taught in this class plus some door power. Moving it to S4 suits only if the male head of the house has Kark, Makar or Kanya rashi, because Vedic vastu judges this from the male head of the house alone, not from anyone else such as the wife.